19th Century Mᴀss Grave With Hundreds Decapitated Vampires Discovered In Polish Village
Conny Waters – AncientPages – People have long believed in the existence of vampires. Ancient people were convinced these scary blood-sucking creatures were extremely dangerous. Accounts of vampires occur in mythology and folklore worldwide, and there are also some historical as well as archaeological accounts relating how people dealt with those they believed rose from […]
Unusual Rock With Ancient Paintings Discovered By Hiker In Norway
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Tormod Fjeld was hiking with his family in the Moss area when they stopped for a rest break near a boulder, Viken County Municipality. Fjeld is no stranger to looking for past traces, which is probably why he quickly spotted there was something strange about the rock. He examined the […]
407-Million-Year-Old Plant Fossil Challenges Long-Held Theory On Fibonacci Spirals Found In Nature
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A 3D model of a 407-million-year-old plant fossil has overturned thinking on the evolution of leaves. The research has also led to fresh insights about spectacular patterns found in plants. The research published in the journal Science overturns a long-held theory around a famous pattern in nature. Paleontology Ph.D. student at […]
World’s Oldest Shoes: Some Look Surprisingly Modern
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – More than 700 years ago today, on May 20, 1310, shoes were made for the first time for both right and left feet. Before that, unfortunately, they weren’t. Archaeologists have discovered several very old shoes in many parts of the world. Some of the shoes are thousands of years old […]
Neanderthal Cave Engravings Identified As Oldest Known, More Than 57,000 Years Old
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Markings on a cave wall in France are the oldest known engravings made by Neanderthals, according to a study published June 21, 2023, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jean-Claude Marquet of the University of Tours, France and colleagues. Trine Freiesleben and Jean-Claude discussing the fingerprints and where to […]
4,000-Year-Old Stonehenge Of The Netherlands Reveals Its Secrets
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Dutch archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable ancient structure that has been nicknamed the Stonehenge of the Netherlands”. Scientists say the intriguing 4,000-year-old structure includes a burial mound that served as a solar calendar. Inside the burial mound, archaeologists came across the remains of some 60 men, women, and children had […]
Incredible Discovery Of A Poem By Virgil On A Roman Oil Amphora
Jan Bartek – AncienyPages.com – Measuring just 6 centimeters wide and 8 centimeters long, the magnitude and exceptionality of the discovery has left the European archaeological community flabbergasted. It is a fragment of an oil amphora from the Roman region of Betica, manufactured about 1,800 years ago, with a written text on it, found during […]
Three 1850-Year-Od Stone Ossuaries Prevented From Looting Near Kafr Kanna In Galilee
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Three 1850-year-old stone ossuaries have been retrieved in an operation carried out to prevent antiquity looting near Kafr Kanna in Galilee. PH๏τography by Yoli Schwartz, Israel Antiquities Authority The stone ossuaries (small burial chests) were discovered in a plot near the village of Mashhad, located south of Kafr Kanna in […]
Modern Horses Have Lost Their Additional Toes, Scientists Confirm
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The distant ancestors of modern horses had hooved toes instead of a single hoof, which vanished over time, according to researchers. The animals, such as the Eocene Hyracotherium, had feet like those of a modern tapir: four toes in front and three behind, each individually hooved with an underlying foot […]
Earliest Evidence Of Evolutionary Trait That Enabled Dinosaurs To Become Giants – Brazilian Fossil Reveals
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The missing link has just been found between the earliest dinosaurs, whose size ranged from a few centimeters to at most three meters in length, and more recent giants that could be more than twice the length of a bus and have so much appeal to the popular imagination. Bone […]